David Walton Quotes
With a lot of comedies, the characters go on a journey, and they come back, and they're the exact same people.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.
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In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
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There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.
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George Washington didn't have to make us laugh; he just had to establish precedents and avoid chopping down more cherry trees than he could possibly help. But somewhere along the line, Americans began expecting their presidents to do more than just govern. They also had to make us laugh.
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I think scale is about, in a way, the apprehension of proportion, and all the proportions that mean things to us as human beings are related to the body.
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My son is a professional musician now.
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It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.
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With a lot of comedies, the characters go on a journey, and they come back, and they're the exact same people.
